Why Your Roofing Inspection Will Definitely Need A Professional Contractor Most home buyers will request a roofing inspection prior to closing the purchase on a home. However, these inspections will generally be performed by a home inspector rather than a professional roofer. Your realtor traditionally hires Home inspectors, and therefore, they are likely to provide you an assessment with the aim to encourage a purchase. In the past, my wife and I have had to give a hard pass to 8 otherwise lovely homes because of an unreliable roof inspection. Why do home inspectors always say a roof has 2-5 years left? If this statement sounds worrisome and ambiguous to you, it is because it is. These flimsy evaluations will often leave buyers uncertain of when they will actually be required to invest in a new roof. Here are a few ways that skipping the guesswork and investing in a professional roofer assessment will save you from unfortunate, costly surprises. Damage Assessment Experienced roofers possess skills that enable them to spot potential problems;…
The Flow of Energy: Primary Production to Higher Trophic Levels How much of the sun’s energy is available to and assimilated by plants, and how is that measured? The sun produces heat energy which reaches the earth through radiation. The amount of radiation reaching the earth’s surface is dependent on the location. The majority of the sun’s energy is received at the equator, and the energy decreases in the Polar Regions. The majority of solar radiation that hits the earth’s surface is reflected into space by deserts, oceans, snow, and ice. The energy is also absorbed into the earth’s atmosphere by gases. Plants use solar radiation for photosynthesis. Half of the light coming from the used by plants in photosynthesis since it has a wavelength of between (~400-700 nm) (Page 3, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd paragraph). How are gross production, net production, and ecosystem production-related? Gross primary production refers to the overall amount of carbon dioxide produced by plants during photosynthesis. Net primary production, on the other hand, refers to the net amount during primary production after including the effects…
Provision of accessible clean water Summary Water is an essential element in life, even more than food. Scientist says that 75% of the earth is covered by water, but only about 3% of the percentage is suitable for drinking. In the current years, there has been water scarcity in the arid and the polar regions of the earth. In the Polar Regions, the water has frozen, making it difficult for the people living there to access drinking water and some to run their machines and industries. The arid areas, on the other hand, have experienced high temperatures, which has, in turn, created drought and famine due to lack of rainfall. Therefore the engineering industries have had a rough time managing the situation of water shortage by finding ways to generate clean water and making it accessible to the general population. In the drylands, the engineers have invested in digging and drilling wells to generate water for irrigational and drinking. In the Polar Regions, the engineers are finding ways to melt down the ice to produce water. In both situations, the…
Environmental Policy and Deep-Water Drilling Both the state and the federal governments have a responsibility towards the environment. However, it is not always that the two levels of government agree on a policy that governs the environment. Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA 90) the cost of oil spillage is capped. Under the State Spill liability law of Texas, there is uncapped strict liability for the damages caused by the spillage (Cohen et al. 30). Because of the difference in these policies at the state and the federal level, there exists a gap liability on the social costs of an oil spill. When a spillage occurs, like in the Deepwater Horizon, the impact spread across the state and federal waters, and thus the cost of cleaning the waters falls upon the state and federal governments. Allowing the capped liability federal law to take course on oil spillage, mean that the economic and social costs of the spillage will not be covered. For example, the federal law put a $75 million liability cap on the company responsible for the spillage (Richardson…
Extractive Industries and the Resource Curse Introduction Extractive industries are categorized as those that operate through mechanisms of removing valuable minerals and other treasured aggregates from the earth. According to Wikipedia, resource curse refers to the paradox that states; nations with plenty of natural resources e.g., fossils fuels, usually have minimal economic growth and experience the worse in economic growth and development. Most of these countries have high potential to boosts their economies, but the resources are squandered by the corrupt few who control the economy, or the resources remain unmined due to civil wars and related political issues. There is always a strong relationship between the resource curse and the extraction industries. Economists contest on the existence of positive and negative spillovers from mineral extraction to the economy of a country, suggesting that they are influenced by locals, particularly in the presence of a foreign multinational (Gilberthorpe, 2015). In this paper, Gilberthorpe indicates that whether the country benefits from the resource extraction or not, that will entirely depend on the decisions made by the locals. The extracting company has…
Couple indicted with animal cruelty after footage revealed them abusing their horse A Colorado couple was accused and charged with animal cruelty for abusing their horse. They were caught on the camera doing the act. The camera footage revealing the cruel act went viral on Facebook over the weekend, and the public was quick to condemn the couple as “awful,” “sickening,” and “incredibly heartless.” The footage showed the horse being forcefully pulled along an icy road while it was tied to the back of a vehicle. The horse, named Trigger, was clearly in a state of distress. It pulls hard to get free and slides across the road. According to CNN, the horse’s owners, 59-year-old John Saldate and his wife 33-year-old Amber Saldate, have been charged with animal cruelty this week after an enquiry by the Grand County Sheriff’s Office. Ms. Saldate, in an interview with CBS Denver, complained about the outcome of the incident to the reporter. She said, “You make one stupid decision, and it can ruin your life,” she told Matt Kroschel. “I’ve hurt many people. I…
Fire balloon frames Many companies are combating for working structure fire within the three-story, using the victory style, and the balloon frame house with its basement. As its fire started from the basement and reached the first floor. With the fire on the first floor being suppressed and still having some active fire at the attic. While the second floor may have fire involvement. The scenario has the main concern with the void spaces at the walls. The fire runs through the walls to its highest level. With the fire activity beginning at the upper floors of the building. When this happens, it will create a risk to the fireman. Due to this, there will be a rise in the fire burning ability downward? When the fire gets to the top is the attic base on this situation. And will possibly freely burn downward. This type of building allows the spared of fire to void from the floors resulting in a building collapse. Fire balloon frames Based on the scenario, in this case, the construction of many buildings and fire…
HOW TO SEASON A NEW SMOKER Ready for you next cook-off with that sleek BBQ gear? Well, hold your horses because there’s one thing you need to do first- season it! The initial step to grilling some finger-licking barbeque is to learn how to season a new smoker. The task may seem daunting but worry not because we’ve got you covered. Seasoning isn’t just about adding pepper and salt to meat but rather, cleaning the inside of your smoking equipment. You might hear other BBQ aficionados call it ‘curing’ or ‘pre-seasoning’, and to some extent, they’re right. It’s laying the proper foundation for tremendous BBQ results. Let’s explore simple steps that you should follow to unlock your smoking beast truly. What you didn’t know about seasoning Seasoning a brand new smoker serves two primary purposes: extending the equipment’s life by preventing rust and cleaning off unwanted contaminants from the manufacturing process. But more importantly, it’s a great chance to know your BBQ baby inside-out to avoid ruining any expensive brisket. The exact method will vary from one smoker to…
Disaster Recovery Plans for Small and Medium Businesses Hey Kranthi Abbu, You did a great work in contributing to this week’s discussion on concepts learned from the risk management course. I agree with you that the discussion involved was much value to the class.Especially the questions posted after a discussion. I also agree that business continuity planning, CSIRT, and disaster recovery planning were some essential concepts from the course (Gross Jr, W. F. (2017).However, I think planning risk mitigation was another vital concept learned from the course. The concept is essential in that it helps one to take action to reduce the possibility of risk occurrence. Hey Uday Samudrala, You did a great work of participating in this week’s discussion on important concepts learned from the course. I agree with you that planning risk mitigations and management of threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits are essential concepts from the course. I also agree that lab sessions were significant in that they gave direction to learners on how to develop an outline for risk mitigation (Ager, Kline & Fischer,2015). However, I think discussions…
Reflection Paper on The Austronesian Expansion This world map, which covers about ¾ of the surface of our planet, shows us the extent of what is one of the unknown expansions of humanity: that of the Austronesian peoples. Like the Indo-European peoples that came to populate Europe, the Middle East, and the Indian Subcontinent, these were processes triggered by population growth, but prolonged growth, which was gradually and dragged by millennia. As part of prehistory, everything that is thought to be known about these processes at the moment results from the work of archeology, linguistic investigations, and, more recently, genetics. One of the biggest surprises of the Austronesian expansion is the location of its cradle. Although there are other theories – there are always them under these circumstances – the predominant one places the origin of the Austronesian peoples on the eastern shores of Taiwan. There is no way to deceive the irony: the island is now mostly populated by Chinese (98%). It constitutes, as a Republic of China and as an expression of the refusal to accept communist…